Machine fob sawing fire-wood



UNITED sTATEs PATENT CEEICE.

ARCHIBALD WINTER, OF RONDOUT, NEW YORK.

i MACHINE FOR SAWING FIRE-WOOD, &C.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,707, dated September 19, 1854.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD WINTER, of Rondout, in the county of Ulster and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Sawing Fire- Wood in Suitable Lengths and Conveying it when Sawed to Desired Spots or Localities, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the anneXed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a longitudinal vertical section of my improved machine. Fig. 2, is a plan or top view of do.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The nature o-f my invention consists in the employment or use of a series of endless chains provided with hooks, so arranged as will be presently shown, to convey the wood to a circular saw, one or more, and when cut, conveying the wood to any desired place.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and 'operation A represents a suitable frame constructed of wood or metal, and having a transverse shaft B, hung within it, on which is placed a circular saw C.

D, D, D, D, are endless chains which pass over pulleys (a), hung on shafts E, E, at ,the front and back of the frame. The front shaft is considerably higher than the back shaft, which gives the endless chains an inclined position, as shown in Fig. l.

F, is a bed or platform having grooves (b), cut in it longitudinally, to receive the endless chains D.

The endless chains D, are provided with a series of hooks E', attached to the chains,

so as to be in line with each other, and form transverse rows as shown in Fig. 2.

Gr, is a shaft which passes transversely through the frame A. At one end of this shaft there is a fly wheel H, and at the opposite end there is a toothed wheel I, which gears into a pinion J, on the end of the saw shaft B.

K, is a pulley at one end of the front .shaft E, which has the endless belt pulleys the toothed wheel I, and pinion J, communi- ,eating motion to the saw shaft B, and the belt (c), communicating motion to the front endless belt shaft E. The wood to be sawed (represented by (d), see dotted lines) is placed upon the lower ends of the endless belts and within the hooks E', and as the endless belts move, the wood is carried by the hooks to the saw which cuts it transversely, the hooks still conveying it and casting it off as they turn over the pulleys (a), on the front shaft E.

Any proper number of saws may be employed and placed upon the shaft B, so that the wood may be cut into any desired number of lengths, and the frontshaft E, of the endless chains may be so `placed as to carry the sawed wood to the desired spot, the chains being made of the requisite length.

The above invention is admirably adapted for sawing wood for locomotives and depositing it in proper places, much labor would be saved by its use. It is alsoV Well adapted for sawing fire wood for all purposes, as any kind of power may be applied ARCHIBALD WINTER.

Witnesses:

O. D. MUNN, S. H. WALES. 

